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In This Issue

• From the Desk of the CEO
• Friday Night Dinners: Food for the Soul Church Outreach Allows Physical Therapist to Nourish the Needy
• Neonatal Resuscitation: Saving Babies Around the World, One Breath at a Time
• Around the World, Two Nurse Practitioners Are Welcomed With Open Arms
• ER Nurse Volunteers in Bolivia
• Racing to Help
• Cardiac Cath Lab Makes History With First Laser Treatments
• Sentenced to Serve, Financial Counselor Becomes Safequest’s Volunteer of the Year
• In Grief, Two Mothers Reach Out to Others
• Children’s Network Leader Helps Families in Need
• Twenty Years with Mark’s Learning Center
• RN Rolls Up Her Sleeves in Nicaragua
• Siblings Support a Medical Clinic in India
• Social Worker Volunteers at Oncology Camp
• Mentor Mom: Passing on Parental Knowledge
• Family Bonds: Fund-raising for Muscular Dystrophy
• Clearing the Air for Kids: Coalition Teaches Families About Asthma
• Fancy Food Show Feeds Solano’s Hungry
• Family Finds Strength Working, Praying Together
• Chief Nursing Officer Takes Her Caring Touch to Kenya
• Classical Music, Close to Home
• Engaging Minds: Certified Activity Director Aids Solano’s Memory-Impaired
• NorthBay Adult Day Center – A Needed Service
• Great Wonders, Great Jubilee: Bill Seiden, Solano Wine & Food Jubilee volunteer
• Guild’s New Leader
• Welcome New Physician
• HERO Fund: Employees Help Patients in Need
• Cancer Survivors Day ‘Celebration of Life’ is June 7
• Golden Honors
• NorthBay Center for Primary Care Now Offers After-Hours Urgent Care
• NorthBay Hospice Makes a Vacaville Man's Dream Come True
• Community Support Strong for 2009 Jubilee
• A Life of Service

Engaging Minds: Certified Activity Director Aids Solano’s Memory-Impaired

May 18, 2009 · No Comments

You know you’ve found the right career fit when you can match an avocation with your vocation.

“I love to do crafts and come up with creative new activities,” says Sandy Perez, program manager for the NorthBay Adult Day Center. Many of Sandy’s creative ideas eventually become the crafts, activities and games that help stimulate the minds, memories and motor abilities of participants who spend their days with her at the center.

In fact, Sandy has become so well-known for her creativity that she is frequently asked to speak at or conduct workshops for several organizations, including the Northern California Council of Activity Coordinators, West Coast Activity Professionals and Delta Area Activity Professionals. These groups represent activity professionals who work at day care centers for seniors, or skilled nursing homes and continuing care facilities.

Sandy has been invited to conduct workshops for these groups several times a year, at meetings held everywhere from Fresno to Ukiah. “I try to come up with things that will tickle people’s senses and help them to reminisce.” As much as the activities are fun for memory-impaired adults, Sandy notes they are just as popular with the children she works with at her church in Dixon. After all, who – no matter the age – wouldn’t want to help make some ice cream, and then be invited to eat it?

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